Which was playing on the car CD player at the very moment an (at the time) rather devastating medical condition overtook our older daughter on the back seat of the car. Now it chokes us both up, even though she is - fingers crossed - perfectly healthy again.

I have to say I wasn't suprised when Vic Chesnutt killed himself. But I was surprised by Mark doing it. I thought he'd put a lot of the bad stuff behind him and took the title of It's A Wonderful Life quite literally. That, and Belly of a Mountain seemed to much more relaxed than his earlier stuff, and much more reconciled to this whole being alive lark.